C and C zero hour online connection prolem

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Me and my friend have been trying to play each other online, we get to the final knocking,

PLEASE HELP!!!!!
Me and my friend have been trying to play each other online, we get to the final knocking, e.g. selected teams and map, it then says that we are about to connect then it comes up with a message saying "waiting for probe responce" then instantly kicks us out saying error. Please Help.

Myself and a friend loaded up Zero Hour just this week and we had to experiment for a while to find what worked to get a game going.

I finally managed to host an online game behind a Netgear router using the following settings. My friend could join and we played for a few hours.
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Open the following ports in your router as per the Readme file with the game.

In game, set "Force Port" to 4321.
NONE of the TCP ports worked for this - game obviously needs a UDP port.
I always got errors when trying TCP ports.

Try with "Send Delay" on or off - I used "on" as I have a Netgear Router.

Each time before you create a game, click "Refresh NAT" a couple times.
Do this in the main options screen, before going into Multiplayer.
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Hopefully that should get you going.

TSF, thanks for asking, but i now have another serious problem. We finally got online thanks Colonel-C, but now my mod has now decided to stop working altogether. We have uninstalled and re-installed both th full generals and destructive forces mod, i have even found a patch/update but nothing seems to work. everytime i try to play DF, Online or Skirmish it comes up with a message of serious error mesage, Overheating/virus etc, I've run norton, CCleaner. PLEASE HELP